![]() ![]() The Vandercook was Rob’s third press: when it appeared in 2011, he’d been operating his printing business ![]() Rob’s print of Sonnet 117 was done on a Vandercook Universal 4-a very rare letterpress machine, one of only four known to exist. In order to understand how the project came together, you first have to know about the press-a whole story in its own right. When it was completed, the project would exemplify a number of Rob’s distinctive Rob LoMascolo had been working independently as a printer since 2010, and decided to tackle a print of Shakespeare’s Sonnet 117. Printers from around the world were invited to contribute their own hand-printed interpretations of one In 2016, the Bodleian Library at the University of Oxford held a series of events to commemorate the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death. If you want to understand the amazing work that Robert LoMascolo does at his one-man letterpress studio in Aurora, New York, there is one story that perfectly encapsulates his work: the printing of Sonnet 117. Adventures in Letterpress Printing Robert LoMascolo and Sonnet 117
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